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ice skating, the recreation and sport of gliding across an ice surface on blades fixed to the bottoms of shoes (skates). The activity of ice skating has given rise to two distinctive sports: figure skating, which involves the performance of various jumps, spins, and dance movements; and speed skating and short-track speed skating, both of which are forms of racing on ice skates. Ice hockey is the best-known team sport that involves skating. 

Ice sports encompass any sport that is either played on an ice rink or has some sort of affiliation to ice with it. For example, snow golf is played on snow rather than grass, and ice climbing is when people climb various geographic landscapes covered in ice.

The activity of ice skating has given rise to two distinctive sports: figure skating, which involves the performance of various jumps, spins, and dance movements; and speed skating and short-track speed skating, both of which are forms of racing on ice skates.

In 1994 ice hockey was officially recognized as Canada's national winter sport. The modern sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, where the first indoor game.

The technology of hockey skates and sticks is making the game one of the fastest sports in the World.

Ice Hockey

Broomball

Figure Skating

Curling

Speed Skating.....

Ice skating was first introduced in Finland almost 4,000 years ago. However, The Fins did not create the concept as a sport. Ice skating was originally made to assist with travel. Early Finnish people found that they could move faster if they were skating than if they were walking.

The 15 sport disciplines of the Winter Olympics are categorized into three main categories: (1) ice sports, (2) alpine, skiing and snowboarding events, and (3) Nordic events. In each of these sports categories there are more specific events, as listed.

Finns looking to cut back on travel time were the first to use ice skates about 5,000 years ago, a new study suggests. The southern portion of Finland is the only place icy and flat enough to make traveling by skates – at that time made of animal bones – worth the energy, scientists discovered.

The sports that are held during the Winter Olympics are alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, luge, nordic combined, short track speed skating, skeleton, ski jumping, snowboarding, speed skating, among many more.

Speed skater glides on ice.


Ice skating works because metal skate blades glide with very little friction over a thin layer of water on the ice surface. At one time, scientists thought skaters created the water layer by melting the surface layers of ice through the pressure of their body weigh


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